Microcoelia dolichorhiza (Schltr.) Summerh. 1943

Plant drawing TYPE Drawing of Gussonea dolichorhiza by © Schlechter/ Plant drawing of Angraecum dolichorhiza by Schlechter

Common Name The Long Root Microcoelia

Flower Size

Found in northern and northwestern Madagascar on branches in humid evergreen forests at elevations around 1000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a stem giving rise to many roots to 8" [20 cm] long that blooms in the later spring on up to 4 simultaenous, erect, spreading, to .6" [1.5 cm] long, 10 to 12 flowered inflorescence with small bracts and carrying erect, spreading, whitish tinged with carmine rose flowers.

Synonyms *Angraecum dolichorhizum Schltr. 1913; Gussonea dolichorhiza (Schltr.) Schltr. 1915

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 as A dolichorhiza; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 as Gussonea dolichorhiza; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser , 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009

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